Queens-Midtown Expressway

The Queens-Midtown Expressway is an expressway running from the Midtown Tunnel in Manhattan to Queens on Long Island. The tunnel from Midtown to Queens was built in 1940, and the highway was expanded to the east during the early 1950s; it was completed in 1954. In 1956, the expressway became a part of the larger Long Island Expressway. Today, it links the Manhattan Bridge to JFK International Airport, and it is known for its sophisticated enter/exit infrastructure and its "hard shoulders".